As it's Sunday, I have time for Facebook, we have Vermont friends coming over for a barbecue, and I have family calls to make. Made air reservations for a liberal friend's funeral in California, made a lunch date for a conservative friend in Dallas two days later. I'm getting the Facebook "like if (I) love Jesus" from friends in the midwest, and "like if I like George Carlin" from the Northeast.
I'll be thinking about how important it has been to get the older gals in Mexico (like Ms. Vicki above) drives to demanufacture, because our strategy of being the end market for TVs is getting hard on their backs. Everybody, liberal and conservative, is alarmed about exporting hard drives with "information" on them to places like this, where elderly unemployed Mexicans without college degrees take them apart slowly by hand, keeping things like hard drive magnets with rare earth metals. Texas, Vermont, and California are united... Ms. Vicki must be stopped, either because I'm exploiting her, or she's incapable, or polluting, or stealing sensitive hard drive information, or stealing American jobs.
We don't want her jumping the fence to take apart drives in the USA, and we don't want to ship the drives to Mexico. So we put them through machines, destroying the reuse which the Thailand flood hard-drive shortage makes valuable, and destroying the rare earth metals in the magnets, which cling to the steel.
"Smiling and waving and looking so fine, I don't think you knew you were in this song"....
